- 10 Feb 2020 15:18
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The solution to 1984 is 1973!
This is just some half-thought-out, half-baked thing I am throwing out to get something going. So go easy if what follows is not some paint-by-numbers complete and internally consistent doctrine that people can just pick up and start regurgitating without any thought put into it at all. Some assembly may be required.
Basically I am bored with has-been and also-ran ideologies from centuries ago being dug up and their stinking corpses paraded around like they were still relevant by people whose existence is itself a pretty good argument for eugenics. I am bored with personality cults for psycho-killers who have been dead for decades if not centuries. None of it is relevant today and worse it is boring. Why can't we have something new, relevant and interesting? This century, the 21st since big JC, will probably be the most technologically disruptive of them all. If we must have ideologies, and it appears some people are just wired that way, then it should be something suitable for this most magnificent of centuries. It should be something future-positive.
One major point of what I want to craft here is an outward looking focus, by which I mean quite literally looking at the great expanse off-planet. SpaceX has moved us a significantly closer to easy and universal access to the next great frontier, the rest of the solar system. There will be more to come. We all of us here will likely live long enough to witness the first colonies beyond earth. A kind of colonial enthusiasm would seem appropriate for all the vast opportunities that will open up to our species and our non-human friends. We will see the Scramble for Space, as it may one day be called by future historians.
The most likely solutions to the Fermi Paradox at present seems to be, that we earthlings, are either extremely rare or just really early, and so the immediate galactic neighbourhood is a wilderness up for grabs. From one perspective this might be a bit sad, "we are alone", but on the other it is FUCKING FANTASTIC GOOD NEWS, because it means we have no competition out there! We can have the whole lot, if we just reach for it. Of course as we spread out we will diversify in every possible way until arguably we will all become to each other the aliens we are missing now. Personally I am fine with that.
There will be lots of ethical stuff to work out too: uplifting, genetic tailoring, life extension, person status for AI, etc. All very serious shit, no joke.
Anyway if anyone wants to get in on the ground floor of a brave new 21st century ideology then feel free to chip in here. No zombies though please.
Basically I am bored with has-been and also-ran ideologies from centuries ago being dug up and their stinking corpses paraded around like they were still relevant by people whose existence is itself a pretty good argument for eugenics. I am bored with personality cults for psycho-killers who have been dead for decades if not centuries. None of it is relevant today and worse it is boring. Why can't we have something new, relevant and interesting? This century, the 21st since big JC, will probably be the most technologically disruptive of them all. If we must have ideologies, and it appears some people are just wired that way, then it should be something suitable for this most magnificent of centuries. It should be something future-positive.
One major point of what I want to craft here is an outward looking focus, by which I mean quite literally looking at the great expanse off-planet. SpaceX has moved us a significantly closer to easy and universal access to the next great frontier, the rest of the solar system. There will be more to come. We all of us here will likely live long enough to witness the first colonies beyond earth. A kind of colonial enthusiasm would seem appropriate for all the vast opportunities that will open up to our species and our non-human friends. We will see the Scramble for Space, as it may one day be called by future historians.
The most likely solutions to the Fermi Paradox at present seems to be, that we earthlings, are either extremely rare or just really early, and so the immediate galactic neighbourhood is a wilderness up for grabs. From one perspective this might be a bit sad, "we are alone", but on the other it is FUCKING FANTASTIC GOOD NEWS, because it means we have no competition out there! We can have the whole lot, if we just reach for it. Of course as we spread out we will diversify in every possible way until arguably we will all become to each other the aliens we are missing now. Personally I am fine with that.
There will be lots of ethical stuff to work out too: uplifting, genetic tailoring, life extension, person status for AI, etc. All very serious shit, no joke.
Anyway if anyone wants to get in on the ground floor of a brave new 21st century ideology then feel free to chip in here. No zombies though please.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!